International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WYG)(FRANKFURT:IWUB) announced that effective Thursday, January 21, 2010, it will change its name to Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

The press release is quoted as saying:

The Company has been developing its Cariboo Gold Project near Barkerville, B.C., which encompasses (from northwest to south east) the former producing Hardscrabble Tungsten Mine, Mosquito Creek Gold Mine (now on care and maintenance), Aurum Mine, Island Mountain Mine, Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, Bonanza Ledge (proposed mine), the Cariboo Thompson Gold & Silver Mine and the Cariboo Hudson Mine.

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